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Some Republican leaders are jeopardizing the wind-energy Production Tax Credit, which has generated jobs and promoted energy security, according to the editorial board of the Los Angeles Times. The PTC "supports not just developers of wind farms but companies that make turbines and other parts to supply them, accounting for an estimated 37,000 jobs," the editorial states. The best way to solve the issue is to immediately extend the PTC for a year, then tackle the long-term policy for the industry during the tax reform process next year, the board writes.

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The American Wind Energy Association released a video Friday featuring Allsup family from Texas and how they benefit from the renewable-energy Production Tax Credit. Matt Allsup is the senior operations manager at the Lone Star wind farm in Abilene, Texas. AWEA says 37,000 Americans in the wind energy industry like him will find their jobs at risk should Congress fail to extend the PTC by the end of the year. "Behind the windmills there's families, and behind those families we need jobs," daughter Tiffany Allsup says in the video.

Congress should act immediately to extend the wind-energy Production Tax Credit for projects that start next year to help protect up to 37,000 jobs in the wind-energy supply chain, according to the American Wind Energy Association. "It's down to the wire on wind, and Congress has a choice," said Rob Gramlich, AWEA's senior vice president for public policy. "If they do nothing, the wind industry will fall over its own fiscal cliff and America will lose most of its wind installations next year."

The American Wind Energy Association called for bipartisan support of legislation in the House of Representatives to extend the renewable-energy Production Tax Credit. Allowing the PTC to expire at the end of the year would cost 37,000 industry-linked jobs in the U.S., according to a study commissioned by AWEA. "Wind power has truly been an American success story. It's brought $15 billion annually in private investment to the U.S. We have a lot riding on this, not just as an industry, but as a country," said AWEA CEO Denise Bode.

Congress and President Barack Obama should unite to extend the federal Production Tax Credit beyond 2012, writes the editorial board of The Oklahoman. In Oklahoma, wind provided more than 5% of all energy production in 2010, and the state is in the top 10 in installed and potential capacity. "As an emerging and vital industry ... wind power needs the investment boost that would result from extending the tax credit," the board writes.

Allowing the renewable-energy Production Tax Credit to expire at the end of the year "will kill 37,000 American jobs, shutter plants and cancel billions of dollars in private investment," warned American Wind Energy Association CEO Denise Bode. "Congress needs to understand that, with PTC uncertainty, layoffs have already begun and further job losses and even plant closings will accelerate each month as we near expiration in December," Bode said.